Equipment Inventory System EIMS

Abstract

Inventory management systems are mostly developed and implemented in production companies wherein the raw materials used in manufacturing a product are inventoried against the number of products developed, and the actual expenditures made until a finished product is produced. Inventory management systems are scarcely utilized in schools since the priority is focused on the offering of quality instruction.  The paper is about the automated system for conducting equipment inventory management for the State Universities and Colleges of the country. Specifically, the system captures data as regards records of equipment of each employee, tracks the history of the equipment issued for each employee, and performs automated inventory management and generates reports as regards inventory management of the equipment. The study made use of prototyping method in the design, development, implementation and deployment of the system at the Catanduanes State University by which the users of the system were involved in the course of the study which was done in from July, 2014 to May, 2015. PHP, MySQL and Macromedia Dreamweaver were the software utilized in the development. Pilot testing was done in the said university since the researchers are both faculty members of the said university. Utilizing the study in the state universities and colleges in the country would result to a simplified, organized and facilitative equipment inventory management process. This will result to an improved productivity and effectiveness in the performance of inventory management duties of personnel and would be an input to the decision making process of the school.